CREMER, HENRY, son of Acton Cremer (qv); b.; adm.; KS 1693; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1698, matr. 4 Jul 1698, aged 18, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1698 - void 1720, expiry year of grace from 30 Jul 1719; BA 1702; MA 22 Mar 1704/5; ordained; Perpetual Curate of Bensington, Oxfordshire 25 Mar 1714-20; Prebendary of St. David’s from 11 Dec 1716; Vicar of Llandilofawr [check], Carmarthenshire, from 1719; d. 12 Apr 1723.
CREMER, ACTON, son of Thomas Cremer, Bockleton, Worcs., and Ann --- (IGI); b. 17 May 1651 (IGI); adm.; KS 1667; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1670, matr. 1 Jul 1670, aged 19, Westminster Student 18 Jan 1671 - 1676, void by marriage; BA 1674; MA 1677; author of an English translation of Scheffer’s History of Lapland, published in Oxford in 1674, being “an imposition set him by Bishop Fell [Dean of Ch. Ch. ] for courting a mistress at that age, which the Bishop dislik’d” (Hearne, Collections, iii, 318); ordained; Rector of Brampton Abbots, Herefs., from 25 Sep 1684; Vicar of Clifton on Teme, Worcs., from 14 Jan 1687; m. 1676 (despite the Dean’s objection and imposition) his cousin Elizabeth Penell, Woodstone, Worcs.; d. 1689.
CREIGHTON, ROBERT, son of Robert Creighton (elected to Camb. 1655, qv); b.; adm. Apr 1686; in a letter dated 14 Apr 1686 his father, while commending his son to Busby’s care, writes “the school I send him to will make him happy, or nothing will”; KS (aged 13) 1687; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1692, adm. pens. 28 Jun 1692, scholar 28 Apr 1693, matr. 1693; 9th in “ordo” 1695/6; BA 1695/6; MA 1699; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 2 Oct 1698, Major Fellow 28 Apr 1699 -c. 1702; ordained priest (Winchester) 20 Sep 1702; Vicar of Combe St. Nicholas, Somerset, 17 Mar 1703-25; Master of the Grammar School and Keeper of the Cathedral Library, Wells, 2 Apr 1712; Prebendary of Wells from 26 Apr 1718; Vicar of Odcombe, Somerset, from 15 Mar 1725; Vicar of Burnham, Somerset, from 18 Dec 1727; Vicar of Yatton, Somerset, from 9 Jun 1729; buried Wells Cathedral 22 Dec 1732.
CREIGHTON, ROBERT, son of Robert Creighton (elected to Camb. 1613, qv); b. adm.; KS; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1655, adm. pens. 23 May 1655, scholar 1655, matr. Easter 1656; 10th in “ordo” 1658/9; BA 1658/9; MA 1662; DD 1678; Fellow of Trinity Coll. 1659 - c. 1668, Tutor 1665; Regius Professor of Greek 1666-72; Chaplain in Ordinary to Charles II; Reptor of Uplowman, Devon, 1670; Rector of Ashbrittle, Somerset, from 22 Oct 1670; Prebendary of Wells from 23 Aug 1662, also Precentor and Canon Residentiary from 2 May 1674; in a letter to Richard Busby (qv), dated 15 Dec 1688, preserved among the muniments of the Busby Trustees, Creighton thus acknowledges his obligations to his old master : “I have been your debtor from my childhood, to you I owe my education, and my child’s, my fortune, my Fellowship in Cambridge, my lecture there, my travails, my station in this church, this dividend, myselfe, all, except my infirmities” (Elizabethan xi, 140); composed several services and anthems, one of which, “I will arise” is still a favourite with lovers of church music; m.; d. 17 Feb 1733/4, aged 97. DNB.
CREIGHTON, ROBERT, son of Thomas Creighton, and Margaret Stuart; b. 1593; adm. 1607; KS; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1613, adm. scholar 1614; BA 1617/8; MA 1621 (incorp. Oxford 15 Jul 1628); DD Oxford 21 Feb 1642/3; Fellow, Trinity Coll. 1619- c. 1621; Professor of Greek, Cambridge 1625-39; Public Orator 1627-39; ordained; Prebendary of Lincoln 18 Mar 1631/2 – Jun 1670; Prebendary and Treasurer, Wells Dec. 1632 – Jun 1660, also Canon Residentiary 1 Apr 1633 – Jun 1660; Chaplain in Ordinary to Charles I; Rector of Huggate, Yorks., 1641; Dean of St. Buryan, Cornwall, 1642-5, sequestered; escaped to the Continent on the fall of Oxford, disguised as a labourer; member of exiled court of Charles II; tutor to Sir Ralph Verney’s son at The Hague 1652; Dean of Wells 29 Jun 1660 - Jun 1670; restored the cathedral; Rector of Uplowman, Devon 1665-70; Vicar of Cheddar, Somerset, 5 Sep 1665-70; consecrated Bishop of Bath and Wells 19 Jun 1670; author, Vera Historia Unionis inter Graecos et Latinos sive Concilii Florentini exactissima narratio, 1660; m. Frances, dau. of William Walrond; d. 21 Nov 1672. DNB.
Creedy, John Madoc, son of David Luther Creedy, airline exec., of Willesden, and Eluned Maddock, head of English dept. Godolphin and Latymer Upper Sch., d. of William Howell Maddock, headmaster, of Caerau, Glamorgan; b. 24 July 1953; adm. Sept. 1966 (R); left July 1971; Univ. of W. Indies Jamaica 1972-3; KCL 1973-4; Central Lond. Poly. 1979-82, BA; film producer and documentary dir., film and theatre critic; winner Sony National Student film festival 1982; d. 1994.
CREAKE, THOMAS, son of Thomas Creake, Chelsea, Middlesex, and Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Talbot DCL, Gunvill’s Hall, Norfolk; b.; adm.; Min. Can. (aged 14) 1629; KS 1630 (Bodleian Library, Tanner MSS lxix, 224).
Craze, Peter Dermot, son of Michael Romilly Craze, schoolmaster, of Felsted, Essex, and Carol Mary, d. of Rev. Alan Hugh McNeile DD, Regius Prof. of Divinity, Trin. Coll. Dublin; b. 4 Dec. 1946; adm. Sept. 1960 (G); left July 1965; Hertford Coll. Oxf., matric. 1965, BA 1968, MA 1975; asst. master Repton Sch. 1969-71, King’s Sch. Ely 1971-5, Manchester GS 1975-83; Headmaster Durston House Sch. Ealing 1983-2004; m. July 1971 Gabrielle-Anne, d. of Sir Denys Haigh Wilkinson FRS, Vice-Chancellor Univ. of Sussex; d. 11 Nov. 2004.
Crawshaw, Ralph Dunford, son of Peter Hiram Crawshaw, of Scarborough, Yorks, by Jeanne Charlotte, daughter of Col. Francis Mountjoy Mostyn, 2nd Life Guards, of London; b. Nov. 24, 1880; adm. Jan. 18, 1894 (A); left April 1897; employed in the Foreign Office during Great War I; a member of the Prime Minister's staff at the Peace Conference at Paris 1919; m. Feb. 2, 1901, Constance Lucy, daughter of Thomas Brooks, of East Barnet, Herts; d. March 1, 1951.
CRAWLEY, RICHARD, second son of Rev. Richard Crawley, Rector of Rotherfield, Sussex, and of St. Mildred Poultry, London, and Mary, dau. of Owen Clutton, Greenwich, Kent; b. 31 May 1791; adm.; KS (aged 14) 1806; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1810, adm. pens. 7 Jun 1810, scholar 1811, matr. Mich. 1810; BA 1814; migr. to Magdalene Coll. Dec 1814; MA 1817; Fellow and Tutor, Magdalene Coll.; Proctor 1823-4; ordained deacon 19 Mar 1815, priest 29 Sep 1816 (both Ely); Vicar of Steeple Ashton cum Semington, Wilts., from 12 Jun 1828; Prebendary of Salisbury from 25 Feb 1843; d. unm. 9 Dec 1869.